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The Center for American Progress released a report Monday that recommended a broader role for students on federal panels, including the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, and the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education.
The report, "Including More Student Voices In Higher Education Policymaking," noted that students' concerns have been widely broadcast through the Occupy movements' focus on student loan debt, but that many factors hold back student organizing, including a lack of institutional transparency, the growth of nontraditional students, and the lack of real on-campus power relative to administrators.
"Strong student voices in higher education policy could help to ensure that federal, state and institutional policy makers continue to direct their reforms toward the issues that matter most to students, including tuition prices, financial aid, and the quality of the courses they offer," the report's authors wrote.
